This durable Y-Adapter from Monster Cable splits audio from a single female XLR source to 2 male XLR cables.

A signal chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Monster's Y-Adapters maximize signal and minimize noise for the best possible performance from your equipment. Monster CableLinks adapters allow musicians, DJs, home theater builders, video enthusiasts, audiophiles and studio engineers to hook up their gear with the confidence that they're getting maximum performance and maximum durability.

I've always built these XLR Y cables for my conferance recording racks myself. They go between an Audio Technica at-mx341a automatic microphone mixer and a Tascam CD-RW901SL live CD recorder.

The mixer output is monoral XLR line or mic level, which is used at line levels for my purposes. The CD-RW901SL has several input options actualy, but all of them, including the analog balanced XLR option that makes the most sense to use in this application, require a stereo or dual mono signal. That's where this cable comes in.

When I build these Y adapter cables myself, I use Canare Star Quad cable and Neutrik connectors with gold contacts and they are totaly invisible. I've only used this Monster branded solution in one rack, the one I just added a few weeks ago. I've recorded with it couple times since building it.

So far this product seems to offer the same great quality that I've gotten from my own cables over the coursae of thousands of recordings. In addition to that, I very much like not having to build my own cables.

There's a very common cable manufacturer that does make these, but the quality of the materials used just isn't quite where I want it to be. So far so good with this Y adapter though I'll remain cautiosly optomistic for a good while. I still carry my spare.

I'm pretty jazzed so far. Truth be told, I take a great deal of pride in my work, and I have a lot of exciting challenges I'd rather work on rather than dragging a buch of stuff out and building cables in the shop. I'm hoping this is lightning in a bottle. I just can't seem to find a reasonably priced solution anywhere else.

I'm happy with mineThe cables are long enough to separate the two male plugs about a foot (not counting the length of the connectors themselves), which is nice; a lot of these y-cables are very short. The connectors are kinda klunky, heavier and bulkier than they need to be, but they work just fine.I've used this one for maybe 7 or 8 months now, and have had no problemsseems a reasonable price